Vaccination - make an informed choice

This week is Vaccine Awareness Week.  

In honour of this week, the following is reprinted from the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) website, an Amercian site, but one that contains good information.

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry risks, which can be greater for some than others. NVIC encourages you to become fully informed about the risks and complications of diseases and vaccines and speak with one or more trusted health care professionals before making a vaccination decision. 

If or when you vaccinate, please ask yourself the following questions.  

You can also download the If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 brochure online. 

1. Am I or my child sick right now? 
2. Have I or my child had a bad reaction to a vaccination before?  
3. Do I or my child have a personal or family history of vaccine reactions, neurological disorders, severe allergies or immune system problems?  
4. Do I know the disease and vaccine risks for myself or my child?  
5. Do I have full information about the vaccine's side effects?  
6. Do I know how to identify and report a vaccine reaction?  
7. Do I know I need to keep a written record, including the vaccine manufacturer's name and lot number, for all vaccinations?  
8. Do I know I have the right to make an informed choice?

If you answered yes to questions 1, 2, and 3, or no to questions 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and do not understand the significance of your answer, you may want to review information on NVIC's website with links to other websites and resources so you can better answer these questions designed to educate consumers about the importance of making fully informed vaccine decisions.  

Click here to learn more about the role of informed consent in vaccination. 

The next edition of the No-Nonsense Vaccination Handbook will be published in the Spring.

Give me a call if you would like to get hold of a copy before then, or if you want to talk about your options now. Mob 07942 816937

How the Anti-vaccine Movement Empowers Children

I really felt I had to respond to the Press Release from The American Academy of Pediatrics. There is so much scare mongering in the press. 

I decided to take a look at the following two Paragraphs.

"The pertussis epidemic in California is just the latest example of a disease that has taken a foothold thanks to low immunization rates. In 2008, 11 children around San Diego were infected with measles after an unvaccinated child returned home from Switzerland with the infection. In 2009, five children in Minnesota contracted Hib meningitis – a vaccine-preventable infection – and one died. Several cases and at least two deaths were also reported in other states."

"We are at a crossroads," said Dr. Offit. "If population immunity continues to break down, the door will open wider to diseases that we thought had been vanquished by vaccines."

1. The reason that Pertussis (Whooping Cough) has taken hold is that for many years women have been vaccinated as children with DPT and therefore have no natural immunity to pass on to their new babies. Whopping cough used to be a diease in children from 4-7years old.  It was not a nice disease, but it was rarely fatal.  However, because women have no immunity and we are not feeding children with the nutrients to ensure a strong immune system, younger babies are getting the disease at an age when they are less equipped to cope with it.

2. Were the children infected with Measles vaccinated with MMR? If so, how come they caught measles from one child.  Did they even come in contact with the child?  Maybe the parents wer happy they got it. Mothers used to hold Measles Parties to make sure their children caught the common childhood diseases at a time they were healthy and could cope with it.

3. Again were the children who got Hib Meningitis vaccinated? If they were, how come they got the disease? Vaccines do not give immunity to diseases. The only true immunity is a healthy immune system.

4. Population immunity was growing even before the introduction of vaccines. The rate of decline of diseases is still seen in countries where they did not introduce vaccines.

5. Diseases are not vanquished by vaccines, the infectious agents mutate and change their presentation, so they get called another name.

Vaccines containing Thimersol are not safe for children

Robert Kennedy Jnr speaks out to the America Congress about how mercury in vaccines is adversely affecting our children's health.

This is part 1 of 2 - they are both worth watching